Fazendo"sopa de Carver": Short cuts - cenas da vida, de Robert Altman à luz da adaptação.

Abstract

The present work intends to analyze the film adaptation Short cuts, by Robert Altman in relation to one of its source materials, the short story “So much water so close to home”, by Raymond Carver. To do so, an investigation was undertaken on the theory of adaptation developed by Linda Hutcheon, Robert Stam and André Bazin as well as the intertextuality studies conceptualized by Julia Kristeva. Because we are dealing with a corpus of literary and filmic nature, it also proved necessary a deepening on the theory of both fields: in the former, the contributions of Ernest Hemingway, Andrew Bennett & Nicholas Royle and Jean Pickering were crucial to our discussion; in the latter, we concentrated on the works of David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Jean-Claude Carrière and Marcel Martin. In order to write this paper, we used as a foundation the theory systematized by Gerard Genette and the different categories of transtextuality that relate to the works of Carver and Altman. The results point to a work whose authors and their distinct voices complement each other through elaborate techniques of adaptation, reaffirming, in the process, how adaptation can serve as a powerful tool to promote a dialogue among different forms of art.